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semimetal
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A semimetal is a material with a very small overlap between the bottom of the conduction band and the top of the valence band . According to electronic band theory , solids can be classified as insulators , semiconductors , semimetals, or metals . In insulators ...
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Semimetal \Sem"i*met`al\, n. (Chem.) An element possessing metallic properties in an inferior degree and not malleable, as arsenic, antimony, bismuth, molybdenum, uranium, etc. [Obs.]
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n. (context inorganic chemistry English) A metalloid.
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Analysis showed it to be made of various semimetal materials, such as were unknown to us, created from what we could have called artificial atoms, where semiconductor dots contained thousands of electrons.